The latest reading opportunities…
SMFS list member Joan Leotta announced that her three part flash fiction tale, “Observed, Overheard in the Hallway”, had been published online at Spillwords. You can read it for free here.
SMFS list member Alan Orloff announced that
his novel, The Family Biz, had been published by Level Best
Books. You can get it in eBook or paperback formats at Amazon.
Last month, fellow SMFS Member M. E. Proctor had a guest post here about how the soon to be released new book, Kansas City Breakdown, cowritten with Russell Thayer, came to be. Published by Cowboy Jamboree Press, their new book is a sequel to Bop City Swing of last year. The book is now out. You can pick it up at Amazon and elsewhere.
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Also now out is The Firefall: A Murder in Yosemite by Mark Thielman. Published by Severn River Publishing, this is the third read in The Johnson and Nance Mystery series. You can pick it up in a variety of formats at Amazon. You could also pick up the entire series, to date, as book four, scheduled to be out in January, is available too for preorder. By the way, Mr. Thielman is the current President of the Sisters in Crime North Dallas Chapter, of which I used to be a member, he is also currently nominated for a Derringer Award in the “Best Long Story” category for his short story, Masterpiece, which appeared in Black Cat Mystery Magazine #16.
He is also one heck of a nice guy and
tolerated my weird presence in public at two different book events we were both
panelists at months ago. Experiencing the Tipple, on back-to-back days, has
broken lessor beings.
Fellow SMFS list member Steve Liskow
reached out to tell me that his short story, One on One, appears in Teach.
Write.: A Literary Journal for Writing Teachers Spring/Summer 2026,
Edited by Katie Winkler. Mr. Liskow add, ed: “My story concerns a first-year
teacher who is caught between his rookie idealism and the reality of a student
living in an abusive home.” You can pick up a paperback copy on LuLu.
Back when I worked for a local school
district here in the Dallas area, I used to hear some real horror stories
regarding home life situations. What some kids go through is, literally, hell
on earth.
My good friend Barry Ergang has the
poem, Centerfold, in the latest edition of the online zine, Yellow Mama. SMFS
list members, Elizabeth Dearborn (Lived My Life Too Fast), Joan Leotta (Luck of
the Irish), and Bern Sy Moss (Bragging Rights) all have short stories in Yellow
Mama 115. You can read it for free here.
The latest issue of Black Cat
Weekly also came out. You can pick up Black Cat Weekly #241 here. You could also pick up a
monthly or annual subscription too.
This also means that Ellery Queen
Mystery Magazine: May/June 2026 is now out. SMFS list members DK Snyder
(Home), S.B. Watson (Closing the Case) have short stories in the issue. SMFS
list member Josh Pachter provided the translation of Herbert De Paepe’s short
story, The Defixio Murders (Passport to Crime). You can pick it up at the website or at
bookstores.
By the way, Art Taylor’s “The First Two
Pages” is currently running a feature highlighting several folks that are
featured in the Hot Shots anthology. Things started off with
“The
Touch of Death” by BV Lawson, followed by “Famous
Last Words” by Doug Allyn, with more stories highlighted in the weeks
ahead.
Also now out, if you like fantasy and
science fiction are the new issues of Analog and Asimov’s.
Until next time….
Kevin R. Tipple ©2026
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